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I suspect that if someone did bankrupt a thousand people through fraud you are going to have a number of suicides on their hands.


Agreed. If you account for second-order effects, the result could look pretty grim. That's why I'm of the opinion that some white-collar crimes can absolutely be worse than violent ones - including murder - and that they should be punished accordingly.




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